118 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLLIGENCE. 



Messrs. Dickson, at Chester, are as good as any, and may be more con- 

 venient to Clericus; or, in London, Mr. Allen, or Mr. Knight, both of 

 them in the King's Road, Chelsea. Daphne. 



Salop, March \9th, 1835. 



REMARKS. 



A Description or eight Hybrid Camellias, raised in the Gardens 

 of Walter Frederick Campbell, Esq., M.P., Woodhall, Lanark- 

 shire. 



1. Camellia J aponiea, var. Hendcrsoni, Henderson's Hybrid. A seedling 

 from the double striped ; a large and very beautifully formed rose-coloured 

 flower, named in honour of the late Mr. Walter Henderson, who was 

 gardener to W. F. Campbell, Esq.. This flower gained the silver medal, 

 awarded by the Caledonian Horticultural Society in May, 1834, for the best 

 Seedling Camellia raised in Scotland. 



2. C. J. var. helcropetela, alba. A seedling from Middlemast's Blush. — 

 A very large pure while flower, the form of its parent, but nearly double the 

 size. 



3. C. J. var. Campbelli, Campbell's Hybrid. A seedling from Middle- 

 mast's Blush. The flowers are very large, of a fine white, striped and spotted 

 with pale red. A very handsome and showy flower. 



4. C.J. venustum, Lady Eleanor Campbell's Hybrid. A seedling from 

 Middlemast's Blush. A most beautiful red flower, the centre petals being 

 occasionally mottled with white. 



5. C.J. Adelaidii, Miss Adelaide Campbell's Hybrid. A seedling from 

 the red Warattah. AJ splendid rose coloured flower, sifter the form of the 

 var. Chandlerii. 



6. C.J. var. Juliauii, Miss Julia Campbell's Hybrid. A seedling from 

 Middlemast's Blush. A finely formed and very beautiful flower ; the flowers 

 are white, sometimes having a delicate red stripe up the centre of each petal. 



7. C. J. var. hetcropelela rubra. A seedling from the red Warattah. A 

 very handsome flower, being far superior to the parent kind; it bloomed this 

 season (1835), for the first time. 



8. C. J. var. Carswelliana, Carswell's Hybrid. A seedling from the 

 semi double red. A very fine, regular formed flower, of a deep red colour, 

 beautifully striped with white. A Lover of Beautiful Hybrids. 



[Note. — We received flowers of six of the above seedling Camellias, and 

 can assure the admirers of this deservedly esteemed genus of plants, that 

 they are most splendid varieties. Drawings have been taken, and figures 

 of them will be given in a Supplement to the Cabinel, which will speedily 

 appear. — Conductor.] 



On Cactus speciocissimus. — In your number of the Cabinet (or Decern 

 ber 1833, I see you express a doubt as to whether Cactus speciocissimus 

 will flower in a greenhouse. I have a plant in mine, which last May pro 

 duced thirty-eight fine full grown blooms, which I impregnated with pollen 

 from C. speciosus and flagelliformis, and there is at this present lime twenty- 

 two full grown seed-pods upon it nearly ripe. I sowed a few seeds from the 

 same plant, impregnated with C. Jenkinsonia, in March 1833, and I have 

 about ten plants, the produce, which have attained about six or eight inches 

 in height, but they evidently partake of two or three varieties; tin y were 

 bad starters, but are now growing rapidly. The plant of C. speciocissimus 

 which produces so many fine flowers' is one which I bought of Messrs. 

 Dickson, of Chester, and it flowered very sparingly with them. I have 

 had it four years, and have never given it a fresh pot or even top dressed it, 

 and it appears to be a mass of roots alone. I do not know whether this 

 circumstance may not be the cause of its flowering so freely, for I notice 

 that those branches alone which appear to be in a stagnant state produce 

 flowers, while those that arc growing vigorously upon younger plants seldom. 



